Dante’s Divine Comedy Depicts The Poet’s Mythical Journey Through

Chapter 9 and 10 quiz questions

The french Parlement never attained the importance of Parliament in England because

The french nobility, unlike the English nobility, was exempt from taxation

The last emperor who effectively ruled all the disparate pieces of the Holy Roman Emperor was

Frederick II

Alfonso II of Aragon ensured his control over his kingdom by

Documenting property transactions

The Venetians wanted revenge against Byzantium in the late twelfth century because

Some citizens of Constantinople had massacred Venetian merchants who lived in the city.

The person most responsible for increasing in devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin mary in the twelfth century was

Bernard of Clarivaux

The growth of schools in the twelfth-century Europe can be attributed primarily to the

general economic revival in Europe

Anselm argued that

Human ideas of goodness had been instilled by God, a being about which nothing greater can be conceived

Students who attended medieval universities

generally drank to excess, gambled, fought, and were generally rowdy

The political power of some queens of the high middle ages in Europe is reflected in the

Power of the queen in the game of chess.

Between 1000 and 1250 Europe

took on many characteristics that define the modern West

In the early twelfth century, Genghis Kan quickly built up a large military force by

incorporating the warriors of defeated tribes into his own army

For Europeans, the most important consequence of the Mongol conquests was

the commercial links its established between Europe and the Far East along the Silk Road

The first European colonies established outside of Europe geographically were in the

Atlantic Ocean

The thirteenth Century had witnessed the development of the Philosophical belief that the secular and spiritual worlds were rational, organized, and comprehensible to human beings. In the fourteenth century, William of Ockham